Meme Weaving » consciousness http://memeweaving.com memes don't exist; tell your friends Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization http://memeweaving.com/2010/01/vs-ramachandran-the-neurons-that-shaped-civilization/ http://memeweaving.com/2010/01/vs-ramachandran-the-neurons-that-shaped-civilization/#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:50:53 +0000 nthmost http://memeweaving.com/?p=145 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The most important piece of the meme hypothesis is that human knowledge is copied, from person to person and from culture to culture, throughout history. This transmission of knowledge between humans forms the basis for civilization. But how and why is human knowledge copied so readily and rapidly?

In this short TED presentation, V.S. Ramachandran introduces the mirror neuron, a piece of the cognition puzzle only recently deduced from neuroscientific study, which could explain the neurological basis for imitation, empathy, and civilization itself.

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